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Hello reader,
I still get a little nervous whenever I open a company’s financial statement.
In 2018, I covered listed companies in India, where earnings season was controlled chaos. Firms with bad numbers often released them after the stock market closed, which meant late nights digging through financial statements and racing to file stories before the deadline.
And because I was writing for print, there was no way to fix a bad calculation after hitting send. Get the math wrong, and the error would stare back at you in the next day’s issue.
Covering private companies in Southeast Asia is a different beast. The pace is slower, but getting to the real numbers can be much harder.
For listed firms, at least you know where to look: the stock exchange filings. For private companies such as Southeast Asia’s startups, there’s no equivalent.
Finding the numbers can mean digging through corporate registries in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, downloading annual reports, comparing different versions of filings, and then cross-checking every figure.
That’s why we built our very own SEA financial tracker. For this, we’ve pulled together official financial data from private tech companies across the region, from revenue and net profit to how much cash they have left.
The idea is simple: make Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem a little more transparent – and save you from doing all that digging yourself.
Samreen Ahmad, journalist
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